v, 217 pages : 29 cm

1 folded color map

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index

Section One: Plant migrations: the growth of a forest -- Deglaciatio, soils, and topography -- Climate -- Peat bogs: a window on the past -- From full glacial to arctic-alpine -- The boreal forest -- The northern hardwood forest -- The southern hardwood forest -- Red spruce -- Section Two: The impact of man -- Native Americans -- Early botanists -- European settlement and agriculture -- Tanning and the eastern hemlock -- Charcoal, sawmills, and chair factories -- Bluestone quarrying -- Section Three: The forest regrown -- Land acquisition and the forest preserve -- Reforestation -- Forest fires and fire control -- Recreation -- Threats to the forest -- First growth forest -- Section Four: The mountain ranges -- Beaver Kill range -- Mill Brook Ridge range -- Dry Brook Ridge range -- Eagle Mountain range -- Slide Mountain range -- Peekamoose Mountain range -- Panther Mountain range -- Hunter Mountain range -- Lexington Mountain range -- Bearpen Mountain range -- Kaaterskill High Peak range -- Escarpment range -- East Kill Mountain range -- Huntersfield Mountain range -- Blackhead Mountain range -- Delaware Hills -- Ticeteneyck-Tobias-Tremper -- Shokan High Point range -- Section Five: Forest industries -- Introduction -- Legend to the map of forest industries -- Addendum -- Appendix A: Reforestation areas -- Appendix B: Forest fires -- Appendix C: List of common and scientific names

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